Lead Software Engineer

Let’s talk if…

  • You’ve shipped multiple software products to production
  • You understand the importance of a SaaS company being able to ship
  • You’re the kind of person who takes initiative to improve things
  • You conquer learning curves with ease
  • You understand the importance of process and mentorship on a development team
  • You have an up-to-date knowledge of industry standards and their tech stacks
  • You don’t shy away from Infrastructure challenges and work well with other teams

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate closely with the Product team to help both shape, and deliver, the Product Roadmap
  • Act as Team Lead to team of 4 to help shape how the team works and align priorities with overall goals for the team and company
  • Aid in creation of roadmap and operational changes to improve legacy code testability while building new customer-facing intiatives
  • Work in tandem with the team’s Technical Lead on the company’s Platform domain (User-facing Features: Workflow Automation, Scheduling, Campaigns, etc.)
  • Contribute to key technical decisions alongside the Director of Engineering, CTO, and other Senior Engineering staff
  • Be a significant contributor to your team’s sprints, in both planning and delivery capacities
  • Provide mentorship and process guidance for the team to achieve their sprint goals

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience shipping in formal software environments
  • Experience building and maintaining large-scale, data intensive, enterprise platforms
  • Experience building and maintaining distributed systems
  • Comfortable working in a cross-functional agile team
  • Strong troubleshooting abilities
  • Disciplined and detail-oriented
  • Clear and effective communication skills, both written and oral

The Stack (bolded are most relevant for this role)

  • Backend: NodeJS, GraphQL, Go
  • Frontend: React, Typescript
  • Data: PostgreSQL, Apache Kafka, AWS SQS, MongoDB, Redis (Cache)
  • Analytics: dbt, SQL
  • Integrations (Connector): Java, Spring Boot
  • DevOps: AWS, Docker, Terraform, k8s, ArgoCD, Github Actions

Observability: Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry

To apply for this job email your details to dev-email@wpengine.local